Modern Vespa

I am and have done it since leaving school Gas service technician, service and repair of gas boilers and gas appliances, commercial and domestic. Now self employed


Would like to be retired.

If not then would love my own tea/coffee shop, or high class gift and greeting card shop.

Then: I was a student in Secondary school, working a few odd jobs to make some money in retail from working in a bar til "early in the morning to most notably Fortnum & Masons in Piccadilly selling the worlds finest tea

Now: Studying to be a chartered accountant

In the future: I want my own empire with a chalet that has a centre courtyard that has my Vespa as my noble steed!!

I co-own a pastry shop with my sister and dream of putting up a jazz cafe and play monk, miles and coltrane all day long

Now Furniture Remover - Domestic moves UK to UK, UK to Europe, UK to worldwide.

Large scale business relocations including The British Library, several large acute Hospitals

Future Would love to teach History of Art and/or lead visits to Museums/Galleries or run Art/Architecture trips to Italy!

I'm the UFO Launch director at Area 51, I sell mountain property in Florida in the winter, and I know of a bridge for sale.

(I have 3.5 years till retirement, and my real job looks something like this) :

Then: corporate, securities, compliance and ethics lawyer for a multi national IT company with 31,000 employees.

Now: corporate, securities, compliance and ethics lawyer for a multi national IT company with 72,000 employees.

Future: corporate, securities, compliance and ethics lawyer leading a five year national law reform program. It could happen.

I own 30 franchises that pretty much run themselves.

My wife and I spend most days hanging together just doing stuff; coffee, lunch, walks, movies, going for drives or rides etc. I love my wife and I love my life.

Never want to do anything else.

I gather inaccurate data for a living. Luckily no one uses it.

After cold fusion and perpetual motion, that's the problem most people are working on solving. Cheers that you managed to work it out!

You know, that's interesting. I have often observed that there is so much more inaccurate data than good data that it should be pretty easy to gather it all up thus leaving only the good data. We wouldn't need people to gather good data because it would just be there for anybody to use. You will be a hero.

Just doing my part.

Pay the Bills - 12 years as Hospital Administrator for a large veterinary hospital.

Pay for the hobbies - Kayak Editor for Gulf Coast Fisherman Magazine, and a freelance outdoors writer for a few different nationals.

Future - (many years in the future...) Move to NYC full time and write full time.

First I was a marine biologist; it was great fun, but I discovered that you can starve to death being a marine biologist.

Then I spent 20+ years as a developer of medical devices.

Then I joined my wife as a Realtor (tm) and sold real estate.

Then we bought real estate.

Now I sit on real estate in the sun and enjoy life.

My advice to all you young whippersnappers out there is to retire first. You can always work when you are too old to enjoy retirement.

left school at 15,

apprentice guitar luthier 7 years , guitar luthier for 4...


then....



session guitarist and guitar tutor since about 98....



beats working for a living...


8)

From 1995 to 2010, I used to manage a training centre for schoolkids that want to learn basic motor mechanics but it closed.

I now run my own training centre for schoolkids that want to learn basic motor mechanics. www.pitstop.org.uk

Would still like to be running it in 10 years time.

My father is a retired Gynecologist but my mother says he still likes to keep his hand in!

Then: barber.
Now: barber.
Good enough for me.
Being a travel writer wouldn't be bad.

Now: Retired - 17 Years experience.
Future: Hope to enjoy being retired for many, many more years.

Now: Cardiovascular Perfusionist (my office is an O.R., and my desk is a heart-lung machine)

Future: Wife and I would like to retire someplace warm with a beach and run a Bed & Breakfast.

Dream: Pilot -or- Musician (i.e., the kind that tours)

Ha! Love it!

Don't know whether you work for the government or for a government contractor (essentially the same thing with lousier benefits), but this favorite quote of mine is likely appropriate regardless:

"The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases."

― Josiah Stamp

46.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Current - Over thirty years in the hairdressing / beauty industry.
Ideal - Anything as long as I am in charge.

I am a professional adviser. I GIVE, not offer, advice on any number of subjects, particularly aviation, whether the recipients want it or not.

Just hoping you're not the bus driver

Past i was a RN who specialized in treating people with burns. Set up the first burn center in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Spent a total of 5 yrs there and set up a few more. Even one in Sanaa North Yemen. I worked on the Indian reservations,St Thomas and Hawaii as well. Presently retired but disabled. I still mange to get around tho. In the future i'd like to be a world traveler. Wait i already do that. Had a good life so far and even with having stuff that doesn't have a cure i'm still having fun. I used to climb high mountains for fun. Now i look at them. Life's good. 8)

Then: chiropractor
Now: chiropractor (it's still the best thing I can think of)
Future: part-time chiropractor, in apeaceful corner of Mexico (dream on, for now).

You do the Lord's work, my friend. I love my sports chiropractor. He has helped me more than any traditional doctor ever has when it comes to all of my sports owies. People who know how to treat the root problem and not the symptom...I love you guys.

I am a designer. Handbags, mostly. Working on a line of camera bags right now, which is interesting. I'd love to get more into designing athletic gear.

Was an ad copywriter for many years, first working for agencies, then set up my own freelance business. About 20 years ago, started writing product reviews and general articles for firearms publications. Now, semi-retired, still writing, shooting and writing about shooting. I'll keep doing that, and writing off my expenses, until I get carried out feet first.

I miss reading articles by Jeff Cooper.

Thanks for the love....we do what we can...

DUH!! You are insane! No sane person runs into a burning building. You cannot be paid enough to be a firefighter. As long as they pay you enough to live you will be happy. Right? And that is all that matters, eh?

Opera singer

now: Histologist in the heat of Texas

someday: Royal laz-a-bum in the mountains in New Mexico

Grump the gardener.

I am one of the lucky guys, one who was paid for having fun.

I am, was, a Communications Techinician. I could install or repair anything. Only thing I wanted was to fix things. The difference between repair and install is that in repair things used to work, with install you sometimes have to make the impossible work. In 45 years I was never stopped, I aways made it work.

Nowadays, they don't fix anything, just replace. So I retired. Now I get to ride.

Then: Registered Nurse in a level 1 trauma center saving lives but getting paid squat

Now: Sr. Drug Safety Specialist for a biotech/pharma company in SF Bay area. Baby-sitting a drug safety database and writing reports using Cognos. Paid well, but bored off my ass. Definitely unappreciated.

Future: probably more of the same, gotta pay the mortgage.

Dream job: wealthy enough to be a student for life, studying whatever I wanted. Or being able to afford to take 2 years off work to get a nurse practitioner degree so I can go back to direct patient care. Neither is likely to happen as long as I only have my income to rely on.

I generally point at things.

Bill X

Arrrgh, stop pointing at my thing!

What I do: User Experience Design and Product Management
What I want to do: Teach/coach product managers about user experience.

I also have two design related "dream jobs" that have nothing to do with product management that have been on my wishlist for years. Through a bizarre set of coincidences, I'll be speaking to both of those respective companies in the next week or so about opportunities with them that would start next year. Exciting times.

So are in the orange truck, the LEO, or the bus driver.

...and even more fun to sail Once spent a week on the 18th cent brig Stavros S Niarchos as a voluntary youth mentor helping teenagers build confidence and life skills. Would like to get back aboard in the next few years, in the Azores or Caribbean. and watch dolphins play in the bow wave 8)